Narrow Valley

“I didn’t mean to lie, I forgot about that thing,” Clarence Little‐Saddle said.

‐ R. A. Lafferty, "Narrow Valley"


Perhaps one of R. A. Lafferty's greatest stories, Narrow Valley includes a small interaction where the children find a war bonnet given jokingly to Clarence Little-Saddle by his father after a trip to Japan.

The idea for this illustration came in the half-thought before sleep. In that slurry of sense and low consciousness I nodded, "Yep. That's a keeper."